Originally Posted by firebirdude

I wouldn't let a dealership with no aftermarket remote start experience touch this job with a 10 foot pole. Your best option is to sell the 5706V (locally, eBay, whatever) and buy whatever the local professional remote start installers are selling. A manual trans RX8 is the furthest thing from a beginner installation. And that's why I stopped helping you a year ago when you were thinking of installing it yourself. It's a bigger job than I can hold your hand through and it's not a job that should be undertaken by someone with no experience anyway. It's like asking me to walk you through an LS1 engine conversion when you've never picked up a socket wrench before....

Even as a reasonably experienced remote start install, a 5706V on a manual trans RX8 would still probably take me 5-6 hours by myself. Someone with no experience? Several days if they can get it working at all, and it'll still look like a rat's nest when finished. I'm saving you the heartache of wasting money and still having a destroyed RX8....

Originally Posted by firebirdude

Not wanting to install an aftermarket alarm on a vehicle with an OEM alarm is pathetic. Practically every modern vehicle on the road has an OEM alarm.

There is no way to "deactivate" the OEM alarm. There is no special switch or setting you can change to turn it off. The installers need to be intelligent and competent enough to know how to use the FAD and FAA wires on the 5706V. Couple those with the method I told you a few posts up and the OEM alarm will be taken care of. This is alarm installing 101. So if your installers can do this, RUN, don't walk, RUN away.